29 September 2017
This week, we’re focussing on the o phoneme and its alternative spellings: Joe, snow, so, rode, toast.
| pony |
| cold |
| slow |
| know |
| home |
| stroke |
| coat |
| loaf |
Friday 28 September 2017
Able vs ible
This week’s spelling activity focuses on words ending in ‘able’ or ‘ible’ and recognising which suffix to use.
Children should find words that end in either ‘able’ or ‘ible’ and begin to identify any patterns/rules they can see.
Children should present their findings in their homework books. We will discuss this in class and children will be given a word list to learn next week. This activity should be returned by Thursday o5 October.
29 September 2017
This week is a spelling activity focusing on homonyms.
Read the chapter from Ann. M. Martin’s ‘How to Look for a Lost Dog’ which is all about homonyms. Rose (the main character) loves homonyms which include homophones and homographs.
Homophones are words that sound (phone) the same but are spelt differently: their, there, they’re.
Homographs are words that are spelt the same (graph) but sound different: bow, bow.
Rose creates lists of homonyms because she really likes them. How many groups of homonyms can you (ewe) create and can you (yew) then use them correctly in (inn) sentences. I wonder whether you can write a sentence with the whole (hole) group of homonyms in it?
Challenge – Rose can only think of one group of 4 homonyms. Can you think what that is? (Check Rose’s rules for homonyms in the chapter.)
There will be a test on Friday 06 October focusing mainly on the homophones the children learnt last week.
22 September 2017
We continue to explore our spelling theme: ‘drop the y for an i‘. This week’s spelling activity is an investigation. You need to find words where you would drop the ‘y’ for an ‘i’ and then add either ‘ier’ or ‘iest’. This makes either a comparative or superlative adjective. For example: funny > funnier > funniest.
We’ll discuss our investigation on Friday 29 September.
22 September 2017
We continue to recap the different vowel sounds and their alternative spellings. This week, it’s the i sound which be made in different ways: right, kind, cry, hide, lie.
| right |
| cry |
| kind |
| idea |
| write |
| hide |
| tie |
| cried |
22 September 2017
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‘double up’ One of the most common, and important, spelling rules in the English language is the ‘double up’ rule. Doubling up the consonant after a vowel makes the vowel sound short. For example, in the word dinner, having a the double consonant makes the ‘i’ a short i sound instead of the longer ‘eye’ sound (as in diner). Children should learn how to spell these words in preparation for a test on Friday 29 September.
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| focussed |
| immediately |
| embarrass |
| profession |
| opportunity |
| aggressive |
| exaggerate |
| communicate |
| accommodate |
| immediately |
22 September 2017
Year 6 have a spelling list this week.
These are some homophones that Year 6 need to learn – remember it’s not the spellings that are tricky but knowing when to use them. This means you need to practise using them in sentences correctly.
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practice to practise advice to advise device to devise licence to license heard herd guessed guest passed past father further led lead morning mourning |
| Here are some homophones that we should be using correctly already (but don’t). Practise using these correctly, too.
there their they’re your you’re to too two of off which witch |
There’ll be no test next week. Instead we’ll see how our homophone learning is going, identify some we’re finding more difficult and then we’ll be tested on them the following week.
15 September 2017
This week’s spellings are all words which need you to drop the ‘y’ for an ‘i’. Then, you add either ed or es to make the past tense or a plural noun. If you’re not sure what any of them mean, find out. We may ask children to spell similar words that follow the same pattern:
| carry/ied | fly/ies | family/ies | hurry/ied | copy/ied |
| try/ied | daisy/ies | worry/ied | puppy/ies | story/ies |
Learn this pattern in preparation for the test on Friday 22 September.
15 September 2017
This week, we’re going to recap some old spelling rules which we learnt many years ago as people often make silly errors with these in their everyday writing. Here are some key spelling rules. In your book, practise adding suffixes to words (and not just simple ones) and there will be a test next week. The example words below are not a spelling list; the words tested will require these rules to be applied.
Remember, you need to think about how to spell the root word (hurry) before you then think about how to change it for adding the suffix (change the y to an i).
| drop the y for an i | double up for a short vowel | drop the e | i before e, except after c |
| countries
diaries hurried |
accommodate
immediately embarrass |
advising
evaporating practising |
ceiling
receive believe |
15 September 2017
This week we are focussing on the ‘double up for a short vowel sound‘ rule. This is a key spelling rule.
Children should already be familiar with this rule. However, it’s one we often forget in our writing. This week, instead of being given a list of words to learn, children should create a poster that will help other children in the class remember the rule. The poster should include an explanation of the rule and some examples.
This should be competed and returned to school by Thursday 21 September. Children will then be tested on some random words that follow (or break) this rule on Friday 22 September.